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Chattel, Inca Historic Preservation Consultants SUSAN O'CARROLL, Ph.D. Consulting Principal Associate / Principal Planner Susan O'Carroll has over 25 years of planning experience, and for the last 20 has worked as a CEQA specialist managing preparation of Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs), Negative Declarations, and environmental document critiques. Susan has managed preparation of over twenty EIRs, and numerous Negative Declaration and Mitigated Negative Declaration documents. She is experienced in preparing EIRs for controversial projects and for projects where development and evaluation of a range of alternatives is key to clarifying environmental issues facing decision -makers. Examples of such projects include Central Area New Learning Center #1 (Ambassador Hotel site, cultural resources section) for Los Angeles Unified School District and the Rancho Malibu Hotel project in the City of Malibu. Susan managed preparation of a focused EIR for a highly controversial project in the City of Beverly Hills, the Chateau Arnaz project, which dealt both with historic issues and the development of alternatives. She also contributes to projects involving formulation of preservation policy: for the City of Carmel, she participated in drafting the historic preservation ordinance; and for Mare Island in Vallejo, she helped prepare Historic Resources Project Guidelines. Susan holds Ph.D. and M.PI. degrees in Urban and Regional Planning from USC and a B.A. in Experimental Psychology from UC Santa Barbara. She has provided customized CEQA training for cities of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Clarita and Santa Paula, as well as for the Planner's Institute. She served for seven years as part-time faculty for Schools of Public Administration and Urban and Regional Planning at USC where she taught courses on policy analysis, urban economics, transportation planning, and urban studies. Susan also served as Adjunct Faculty for Troy State University's Master of Public Administration Program in the Pacific Theater, where she taught Intergovernmental Relations, Research Methods and Economics for Public Administrators. CHRISTINE DI IORIO, AICP Principal Planner/Architectural Historian Christi di lorio has over 28 years of experience as a planner working for various cities in California, most recently as project manager for the City of Millbrae where she managed and orchestrated special economic and development projects through the entitlement process. She has also worked as Community Development Director for City of Marina where she managed six divisions with an annual general fund budget of $10 million dollars; for the City of Carmel -By -The -Sea as Community Planning and Building Director; and for the City of La Quinta as Planning Manager. Early in her career, Christi was an Associate Planner for the City of Claremont. Christi holds a Bachelor's Degree from Colorado State University in Historic Preservation and a Master of Arts degree from University of California, Riverside in Historic Resources Management. She is certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), and meets the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards in History and Architectural History.